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West Nile Virus Proliferates where Climate Change Brings Warm, Wet Weather

West Nile Virus Proliferates where Climate Change Bring...

SIN Aug 22, 2024 0 26

Houston’s warm, wet spring, driven in part by climate change, was a boon for mos...

The U.S. Has Its First Plan for Plastic Pollution. This Is What’s in It

The U.S. Has Its First Plan for Plastic Pollution. This...

SIN Aug 21, 2024 0 26

The U.S.’s first plastic pollution plan features better measuring standards, mor...

The Wow! Signal SETI Mystery Might at Last Be Solved

The Wow! Signal SETI Mystery Might at Last Be Solved

SIN Aug 21, 2024 0 23

A new explanation for the Wow! signal suggests it was a chance detection of a fu...

High-Dimensional Sudoku Puzzle Proves Mathematicians Wrong on Long-standing Geometry Problem

High-Dimensional Sudoku Puzzle Proves Mathematicians Wr...

SIN Aug 21, 2024 0 21

Mathematicians reveal that tiling your multidimensional bathroom will lead to ne...

Solving Inflammatory Bowel Disease’s Mysteries May Lead to New Therapies

Solving Inflammatory Bowel Disease’s Mysteries May Lead...

SIN Aug 21, 2024 0 24

Understanding genetics, immunology and the microbiomes of people with inflammato...

How Are These Mineral Deposits Producing Oxygen from the Ocean Floor?

How Are These Mineral Deposits Producing Oxygen from th...

SIN Aug 21, 2024 0 25

Polymetallic blobs are producing “dark oxygen” from the depths of the ocean—and ...

Europe's JUICE Jupiter Probe Zooms past the Moon in Historic Flyby

Europe's JUICE Jupiter Probe Zooms past the Moon in His...

SIN Aug 21, 2024 0 16

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer spacecraft took a shortcut to the giant planet by...

New Insights on Dinosaurs, Pain and Carbon Capture

New Insights on Dinosaurs, Pain and Carbon Capture

SIN Aug 21, 2024 0 22

How we’ll learn more about dark matter, quantum gravity and substitutes for lab ...

Without AC, Texan Prisons Sentence People to Unsafe Heat

Without AC, Texan Prisons Sentence People to Unsafe Heat

SIN Aug 21, 2024 0 19

Air-conditioning is uncommon for incarcerated people, and the heat index inside ...

John McFall Is Breaking Barriers as the World’s First Parastronaut

John McFall Is Breaking Barriers as the World’s First P...

SIN Aug 21, 2024 0 15

Paralympian and surgeon John McFall is redefining the astronaut image and provin...

How Does a Bioluminescent Petunia Glow?

How Does a Bioluminescent Petunia Glow?

SIN Aug 21, 2024 0 20

A bioluminescent petunia led me to a world of radiant mushrooms, 19th century ex...

Poem: ‘Rocket Launch Laconic’

Poem: ‘Rocket Launch Laconic’

SIN Aug 21, 2024 0 34

Science in meter and verse

Next-Generation Biotech Is Rendering Some Lab Animals Obsolete

Next-Generation Biotech Is Rendering Some Lab Animals O...

SIN Aug 21, 2024 0 22

Replacing research animals with tools that better mimic human biology could impr...

Review: How Henrietta Leavitt and the ‘Harvard Computers’ Launched Modern Cosmology

Review: How Henrietta Leavitt and the ‘Harvard Computer...

SIN Aug 20, 2024 0 20

A new biography of astronomer Henrietta Leavitt celebrates meaning making in sci...

Voting Is Just the Beginning

Voting Is Just the Beginning

SIN Aug 20, 2024 0 16

Your vote matters. But so does your involvement in civic actions

September 2024: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago

September 2024: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Ye...

SIN Aug 20, 2024 0 20

Mysterious Mercury; spiders predict the weather

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